Landscape Artist Alfredo Gomez | Cloudy Morning, Laguna Beach Ca

Cloudy Morning, Laguna Beach CA

Oil on Canvas

Artist Statement

I was born and raised in Jalisco Mexico and started my family in Guadalajara. I first visited California in 1987 and instantly fell in love with its beaches and landscapes. I had an amazing time painting and participating in art shows that I decided to move my entire family to California in 1996. One of the first beaches I painted was Laguna Beach. The cliffs and dark water is a painters dream. The hillside in the painting just rolls on and blends into the fog which gives the feeling of never ending beauty.

I owned a gallery in Laguna Beach for a few years and now currently travel between Guadalajara and La Puente, California. My daughter, Estefania Gomez and I have a studio where we both paint our hearts out onto canvases. She owns an online gallery, Vor Allem Arts, which stands for “above all” in German. It’s a phrase that I learned in an art showcase in Germany. Laguna Beach is a city I really admire and is one of my favorite beaches to paint. The waves crashing in the middle of the painting is by far the best thing I loved creating in this piece. The water is just a magical force that can’t be stopped and the ocean foam it creates when crashing into the rocks just shows how astonishing the Pacific Ocean really is.

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